Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured the first-ever close-up images of spiderweb-like “boxwork” formations on Mars, revealing ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

The Soviet spacecraft Kosmos-482 was launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus. But due to a rocket malfunction, it's been hurtling back towards Earth in an elliptical orbit for the past 53 years.

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior. When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the rock ...

Earth is approaching a critical moment in the future habitability of the planet. Credit: NASA images by Reto Stöckli, based on data from NASA and NOAA ...

And, perhaps by considering Earth after us, we can get a realistic understanding of all the ways we’ve shaped and changed the planet, says Alan Weisman, an environmental journalist and author of ...

It cracked open in December of 2023, commencing a series of eruptions that still continues. At the start of 2024, burning lava poured across a bright, snow-covered landscape, making for a dramatic ...